Cabin In The Woods

[silver_tiamat]

All right. There is no way (and I mean this--NO. WAY.) to review this movie without spoiling it for anyone who wants to go see it. I'm talking spoilers BEFORE THE TITLE of the movie type of spoilers, things I cannot even mention except to say that I love the way Joss Whedon writes dialogue (and Drew Goddard, who also wrote the film, and directed it

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[miss_ljv]

Haha, Cabin in the Woods is a horror comedy, fyi ;) There are several others like it (Drag me to Hell is a great example), so it's really only supposed to be a CERTAIN level of scary, which allows for the fearful types to view. :DDD

[silver_tiamat]

Cabin in the Woods is only a horror comedy in the sense that there may or may not be several movies inside that movie. Have you seen it yet? (YET YET YET?!? =DDDDDD)

Also, in my opinion, Drag Me To Hell is a terrible film. D=

[miss_ljv]

Not yet, but soon! I would have this weekend if I wasn't dying in bed D: Pat and our friend Nick's sister's husband Ross went without us. Pat's like Mega Expert on Movie Types and that's what he told us (and I looked up on Wiki anyway to be sure).

Also, I didn't really like Drag Me to Hell either, but if I wasn't told it was a horror comedy, I would have hated it even more because I thought it was being serious.

[silver_tiamat]

Yeah, I still feel like calling it a Horror/Comedy is going to give a lot of people the wrong sense of it. The same way calling Firefly a "sci fi western" really gives no sense of the truly fascinating, amusing, and original series that it was. I mean, even asigning labels like "cartoon/anime" to something like ATLA or LoK can create false impressions of what the content actually is. One of the reasons The Princess Bride failed in movie theaters (and would later become incredibly well known and popular for decades) is that they just weren't sure how to market it in terms of genre

[miss_ljv]

Well that makes it sound exciting :) I'm quite easy to please anyway but there seem to have been a lot of good movies coming out lately and I love it! Back in the day before Grown-Up Jobs(tm) we used to go to sooo many movie midnight showings! I miss it!